Clarion 1969-10-10 Vol 45 No 06

Vol. XLV—No. 6
Bethel College, St. Paul Minn. Friday, October 10, 1969
Mauk takes charge
Spire changes format; gains an editor
The Everyman Players will present 'The Book of Job' at
Bethel Friday, October 17.
by Marjorie Rusche
Marty Mauk, sophomore, is this
year's editor of the Spire. Marty
comes to Bethel from Des Moines,
Iowa. He plans on pursuing a history
major.
Marty was a sports announcer
for WBCS last year, participated
in Intramurals last year and this
year. His interest in the Spire
developed through working on it
as a staff member last year.
The Communications Board has
screened Marty for the position,
and will be working with him
throughout the year.
What got Marty excited about
being editor is the change in the
format of the yearbook. This year,
the Spire will deal with one basic
Orlin and Irene Corney will bring
two productions of religious thea-ter
into the Twin Cities next week-end.
The two famous theater di-rectors,
designers and writers have
brought their Everyman Players
out of Pineville, Kentucky, for the
third national tour. "The Book of
Job" which began this enterprize
in 1956, and the later "The Romans
According to Saint Paul" will both
appear in the area.
The company will present "The
Book of Job" at a special convoca-tion
on October 17 at 8 p.m. in
the college fieldhouse. Admission
is free if you bring and present a
Bethel I.D. card. Tickets for the
general public will be sold at the
door.
The actors appear as living mo-saic
figures, gleaming in brilliant
costumes of red and gold, blue
and purple. Mosaic make-up masks
the faces, and the magnificent Eli-zabethan
English of the Authorized
version is the language spoken in
a triumph of choral drama.
The two plays are evolutionary
works. In 1956 the Baptist Churches
in England asked Corey, who was
then Theater Director in George-town
College in Kentucky, to tour
a theater production. He began to
search for material and eventually
chose the original language of the
King James Translation of the
earliest book of the Bible. He re-arranged
it to make an effective
stage statement and then followed
the implications of the language
itself.
theme, "What is the 'soul' of Beth-el?"
The social, academic, and spir-itual
life of Bethel students will
be investigated.
There won't be any more mug
shots, group shots or organizations
and athletic teams, faculty or ad-ministration.
All these aspects of
college life will be included, but
the photography will be more can-did
and personal. Senior pictures,
however, will probably be retained.
Marty emphasizes, "We are try-ing
to get away from students
flipping through the yearbook and
looking for their own picture or
pictures as a couple of pages in
their own life; instead, we want
students to look at the yearbook as
a book that combines the individu-
The play uses the earliest form
of drama, the Greek Chorus, as
the friends of Job oppose him in
unison and the women support him
in chorus. It is recitative without a
score. The voices speak, moan,
chant, whisper, and groan as the
terrible trials of Job follow the
debate between Satan and God
over Job's virtue.
More than one hundred tableaux
developed out of the writing and
then Irene Corey took over. The
Byzantines had wanted to picture
God as they knew the story, but in
a way that was larger than life.
Irene Corey saw that parallel and
designed the costumes in Byzantine
style with wigs, costumes, gloves
and shoes all a part of the jewelled
and glass mosaics which have in-spired
audiences so much. With
lights and makup, no scenery is
needed. The mosiac structure and
the stark chorus responses make
Corey's point.
The first performance of "The
Book of Job" was in the college
chapel at Georgetown. The re-sponse
was overwhelming and it
predated the Archibald MacLeish
"J.B." on Broadway by a year.
Many critics have suggested a dou-ble
bill of the Coreys' play and
"J.B."
In 1957 the opening was followed
by tours of churches in Kentucky,
then to the General Association of
Kentucky Baptists in 1958, televi-sion
in Louisville and a Canadian
performance on the way to Eu-al's
own life with the life of Beth-el."
Students are encouraged to turn
in any candid shots they may
have. Marty also plans on using
material from graphic classes, cre-ative
and journalistic writing from
some of the Coeval and Clarion
staff.
"The staff for the Spire will be
open to new ideas because we are
completely throwing away the old
format of the yearbook and de-veloping
a new one," Marty states.
"So if you have any suggestions,
or want to work on the yearbook,
come to the staff meeting Thurs-day,
October 16, at 7 p.m. in the
coffee shop."
According to present plans the
Spire will come out in the spring.
rope. The International Protestant
Commission asked that it be the
final religious feature of United
States Week at the Brussel's World
Fair.
In the fall of the year the Southern
Governor's Conference saw
what was to have been the final
production in a precedent break-ing
performance for that group.
But the success there received too
much publicity and the play has
never stopped.
In 1959 "The Book of Job" open-ed
in The Cathedral of the Hills
at Pineville, Kentucky, where it has
played each summer since. It was
supposed to fail, according to ex-perience,
but instead it has played
to visitors of everyone of the 50
states and many European nations.
It played for three consecutive
seasons in New York, made three
European tours and is now on its
third American tour.
The play and its purpose are
designed from ancient language
and a 3,000 year old story in the
midst of modern questions about
magnitude in theatrical terms. Cor-ey
believes that in this age of
answers by knowledge, there re-mains
a question which traces an
arch back to God, and his play is
motivated in that way.
The Coreys are people of com-mitment
to a responsible theater
of values for man, and are promi-nently
identified with religious
drama and children's theater in
America and abroad.
News of the plans for interim
have finally been released. At the
faculty meeting October 2, faculty
members approved the list of
courses recommended by the Interim
Committee report, and final-ized
general financial, housing and
curriculum arrangements.
Interim will run from January
7-28.
The student who is enrolled in
both semesters at Bethel, will be
charged no extra for the interim
course or for housing during that
time. Those who are attending or
will attend only one semester, will
be required to pay half of the
normal charge for a three credit
course—$93.75. One semester stu-dents
will also be charged $22.50
for room and board if they decide
to stay on campus. The half charge
policy was decided upon in view
of the fact that the cost of interim
is being drawn from the two sem-ester
cost.
Working students who are not
taking an interim course, but wish
to stay in campus housing, will be
charged the normal cost of room
and board for this period. Stu-dents
who are neither working nor
taking an interim course will not
be permitted to remain on campus.
An attempt to house commuting
students who wish to live on cam-pus
during the interim will also
be made.
The wish on the part of Interim
Committee is to create unity of
spirit, a total experience by pro-viding
for spiritual and recreation-al
needs of the students as well
as the academic.
According to the Interim Committee
chairman Philip Carlson,
students should plan to spend 6-8
hours per day on their interim
course. The exact amount of time
will depend upon the instructor
and the nature of the course. In
most cases however, evenings will
by Marge Erickson
Bethel debaters won nine of their
twelve rounds of debate at the
season's opening debate tourna-ment
at the University of Wisconsin-
Whitewater this last weekend,
September 4.
The tournament was a powerful
one and included nearly 40 schools
and over 100 teams from Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin,
Michigan, South Dakota and
Minnesota.
be free and it is the intent of the
committee to make the interim,
in the words of Philip Carlson, "as
an exciting a time on campus as
possible."
Interim courses will each be
worth three credits and will be
evaluated on the pass/fail basis.
None of the courses offered in the
regular semester curriculum will
be duplicated during interim. De-partments
will be deciding in the
near future how they plan to ca-tegorize
the interim course.
With the exception of the Israel
tour, there will be no travel tours.
The committee felt that in view of
the short amount of time available
for organizing such tours it would
be better to disallow them this
first year. The trip to Israel is
being planned by a national group
and arrangements have already
been made. Future travel tours will
probably be included in the interim
curriculum.
The courses offered this year
include: Seeing, Knowing, and Be-lieving
taught by Robert Nelson,
and print making—George Robin-son;
Ecology and Man — Russell
Johnson; The Study Tour to Israel
— Robert Stein; Schools in the
Inner City — Richard Harris and
Junet Runbeck; Intensive Study of
an Author or Period in Literature
— Gerald Healy or Joannine Bohl-meyer.
French Culture (which will be
conducted in the English language)
— Richard Holt and Gerald La-
Roche; German House — Heidi
Waitschies; Spanish House — Leon
Narvaes; Introduction to Computer
Programming — Philip Carlson,
Physics 'Lab Projects — Robert
Carlsen and Spectroscopy — Dale
Stephens and James Rodgers.
The Student in Social Problems
— Richard Steinhaus and Social
Science Research — James Treece;
cont'd on page 3
Bob Elliot and Barb Johnson plac-ed
6th of 58 teams in the Novice
division with 4 wins and no losses.
Marg Erickson and Carol Shimmin
won 3 rounds and lost one, placing
eleventh. The affirmative team,
Julie Palen and Erlene Trude, went
2-2 and placed well into the top
one-third of the debating teams.
The teams will be leaving again
September 10 for another try for
the top at a tournament in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota.
Faculty finalizes
plans for interim
Everyman Players will present 'The Book of Job'
Debate opener viewed a success
by Dave E I !wood
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THE NEW COALITION
by Tom Ford
Upon making a careful scrutiny of the results of a recent Harris
Survey, we find some very interesting insights into racism. The results
of this survey are further substantiation of other public opinion and
sociological surveys of the last year.
The White American has an amazing capacity for overlooking or
sidestepping reality. In response to the question, "Do you feel that
Negroes are discriminated against in the way they are treated?", whites
responded 35% yes, 54% no. In contrast, the black response was 77%
yes, 15% no. Obviously, a good number of the white population have a
very large blindspot.
The white response, however, was quite lopsided and stratified.
By age groups, whites under 30 said yes in 56% of their responses, while
those over 50 answered yes only 28% of the time. College graduates
also varied with those with lesser education: 54% yes as compared to
24% yes, respectively.
It is extremely difficult to believe that so many whites are capable
of denying the existence of discrimination.
Take a trip to the deep South. See the pitiful condition of the
black school systems. Sit in one of the overwhelming number of
restaurants that ignore, without technically "discriminating." Walk
down a city street on a hot evening and see the blacks sitting around,
on "their" side of the street. Hear the repeated slur, "Bay" slip from
arrogant white lips.
Or if the South isn't for you, go north and see what ghetto housing is
in Harlem, Watts, Hough. Talk to a talented black musician who
is the choir director of a large Methodist church, though he is not
permitted membership. Get to know a brilliant young engineer who has
been forced into menial labor because he is black.
In the stratification of the white response, Mr. Harris sees hope
for the rise of a "New Coalition" of civil rights forces. The groups
most sympathetic to the cause of racial equality are the fastest growing
in our population — those under 30 and the college-educated. Combined
with the black vote and other minorities this coalition should be a
majority of the electorate by 1972.
This presents a problem to Richard Nixon and Attorney General
Mitchell's strategy. The conservative elements that they are catering
to are a shrinking portion of the voting population. Either Mr. Nixon
must change his position or face a difficult re-election bid. One way or
another, things must change.
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the CLARION Friday, October 10, 1969
ONWARD
Change seen inevitable
Almost everything that can be said about the war in Vietnam has
already been said. Being against it is now becoming popular. For
those who have been involved against it for some time, it's a little
sad.
The fact that the stigma of this protest is lessening is a victory,
but in the victory, there is a sense of defeat as one recalls the irreparable
damage done to some individuals in the change of public opinion.
The sense of defeat lies in the realization that this victory for
change is only one battle won — the realization that there lies ahead
many unpopular causes which will in time be "the thing to do."
It seems that after experiencing one such reversal of opinion as
has taken place concerning the war in Vietnam that people would
approach change with less emotionalism and more rational thinking.
Much as most people hate to admit it, change is the very essense
of being alive. Something which remains always the same, soon be-comes
stagnant and meaningless. Even things which seemingly never
change, such as Christmas or Thanksgiving, change in the minds of
the participant and thus retain their usefulness.
That the physical world is continually changing, one cannot deny.
In order to continue to relate to it, attitudes must change also. As
the rate of change continues to increase, so must the rate at which
attitudes change.
Educated individuals, especially, should understand this principle.
Change is inevitable. Christian individuals should continually evaluate
the present and anticipate the change so that in fighting for an un-shakeable
principle, they do not find themselves defending a mere
cultural ethnocentrism which is irrelevant, or even contrary, to their
relationship with God.
CHR1ST/AN Ushers needed
forPhilharmonic
The St. Paul Philharmonic Soc-iety
is offering the opportunity to
enjoy the music of their season
for the price of transportation to
the concerts. They are in need of
ushers for the 16 Sunday Concert
Capital Series and for the 5 Con-certs
at Macalester College, The
Exploration 70. Any one who is
interested is qualified.
Ushers are required to come to
the concert one hour before sched-uled
opening and seat patrons until
the performance begins. His duties
completed, and he may sit and
enjoy the music.
If you are interested, please call
the St. Paul Philharmonic office,
225-6571 during the day or Mrs.
Dorothy Handford, 646-0040, during
the evening. Leave your name,
address and phone number and in-dicate
the series you wish to attend.
You will be contacted within a few
days regarding your assignment.
Live your humanity to the fullest! Bethel athletics
deserve analysis
To the editor:
To the editor:
Tradition says that there is a
"battle royal" raging within my
soul. It tells me that I am both the
host of tremendous struggle be-tween
the supernatural, the super-latives
of morality, and that my
eternal destiny may well be deter-mined
by the outcome.
Actually, this "battle royal" is
usually no more than a few border-line
skermishes. Yet there is a
struggle of a different n a t u r e,
which does exist in every person.
Like the traditional view, it in-volves
my eternity, but it is that
part of my eternal life in Christ
that I live right here in earth.
It seems as though there is an
ever-present obsession for people
to develope a style of life which
has been firmly anchored in the
middle of the road. Everyone is
looking for the easy way out, or in,
as the case may be. How many peo-ple
do you know whose ultimate
goal in life is to find a nook where
they are cozy, content, and com-fortable?
There is one dominating princi-ple
involved in this type of life—
"Don't do it, think it, or feel it,
unless it's convenient." This is the
secret for the "well-adjusted life"!
If it puts you out in any way, for-get
it. If it makes you hurt a little
or puts you on that limb, junk it.
For me, this life of comfort would
not be so undesirable if it didn't
involve the sacrifices which must
accompany it. For a life in the mid-dle
does demand that you forfeit
certain things.
First to insure that you aren't in
anyway influenced by any out-lying
forces which may cause you to wan-der
to one side or the other, you
must narrow your field of vision.
You must cut your scope to the
point where all you can see is that
white-dotted line shraight ahead.
This makes you blind to the beg-gar
lying in the roadside. Were
you to stop and dig down under
those rags, you'd be shocked to
discover that the beggar resembled
a hundred different people who
had shown you need you refused to
see, needs you may have met by
taking five "inconvenient" minutes
of your time.
But life in the middle can also
dull other senses. And soon a
deafening cry for help is filtered
through a strong and polished
mess of rationale, and all you
perceive is a faint and distant
echo.
But the biggest price we pay for
walking this road is that we lose
that intensity and deep feeling for
life that comes only when we ex-pend
ourselves. We must dare to
care, no matter what the cost. We
can choose to begin or end once
every moment.
As Christians, this should be a
lifetime of continual beginnings in
which we, hand in hand with Christ
can experience a new dynamic type
of living. This life style gives me
a freedom I could otherwise never
experience, a "more abundant life."
I don't have to get hung up on
my guilt, because that moment of
failure was followed by another
moment, one in which Christ and I
can start again where we left off.
And I don't have to be afraid of
things "of this world." To para-phrase
Ted Weis, I can listen to,
look at, and experience a lot of
different things. If they're wrong,
Christ will let me know. But in
either case, right or wrong, I can
learn, and this will make me a
stronger Christian, because Christ
and I have a moving and function-ing
relationship. Newness and
change are no longer threatening
to my faith.
In the middle of the road, no
matter how straight and narrow it
may be, all I see is white on black.
All I hear are my own shuffling
feet. All I feel is my own hunger,
thirst, and incapacitating fear of
humanity.
Christ saw, Christ listened, Christ
felt. Christ lived his humanity to
the fullest.
If you're afraid to try living
Christ in this way, I hope you enjoy
walking down very long, narrow,
and "super" straight highways.
Barry Anderson
In reference to Mr. Weko's re-marks,
as expressed in The Column
of October 3, be pleased to accept
the reactions of one interested on-looker,
to wit:
The essence of Mr. W e k o's
thought concerning Bethel football
is indisputable and, by the way,
quite commendable. There is, as he
emphatically suggests, no room for
indiscriminate criticism of either
the football team, or athletics in
general. There is, on the other
hand, as he apparently overlooks,
a definite place for intelligent an-alyzation
of the situation.
The football team deserves sup-port,
if for no other reason than
the work which each player puts
in. It is obvious, though, that sup-port
will not be rendered on this
ground alone .The why's and where-fore's
are many.
Consider this year's schedule.
To be sure, it is desirable to play
such teams as Macalaster, Hamline,
Morris, et al.; Bethel has had, and
possibly will have teams that can
compete comparably with the
schools mentioned. Until such time,
however, let us approach the mat-ter
sensibly.
While not advocating the deli-berate
scheduling of "pushovers,"
this observer would like to see a
more realistic asessment of the
team's potential before contracting
teams that are obviously out of
Bethel's class. Granted, schedules
are made in advance. But so are
good football teams.
This leads to the problem of
numbers and although bodies do
not make a successful football
team, they certainly constitute a
good start. Why don't prospective
athletes get excited about playing
football for Bethel? Why is it be-coming
increasingly difficult even
to field a team?
The most obvious answer to these
questions is yet another: Who
wants to play for a loser? But the
problem is much deeper and would
at this point seem to parallel Mr.
Weko's arguments. Who wants to
play for a school which, for the
most part, doesn't seem to care one
way or another whether it has a
team or not?
But while Mr. Weko would blind-ly
argue for continuation of the
football program under the con-ditions
that exist, this observer
would venture a cautious opinion.
If winless seasons, lack of players,
and student unconcern continue,
perhaps Bethel would be better off
without football. Such would be a
most unfortunate occurrence, but,
to steal a phrase tram Keith Te-kautz:
"Get on the ball or get on
the bus."
David Healy
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I3ETHEL FORUM
Vietnam Moratorium Statement
(Concerned Committee of Students and Faculty)
As members of the Bethel community we wish to express our
concern about the American military involvement in Vietnam. We
believe that that involvement is incompatible with the moral and
humanitarian ideals as expressed by Jesus Christ. Therefore we
recommend:
(a) that the American government disengage itself from the
Vietnam war;
(b) that the American government re-think its use of war as an
active instrument of foreign policy; and
(c) that the American government reorient its policies toward
peaceful solutions of human problems at home and abroad.
Signed:
Maurice Zaffke Jan Ullberg Clayton W. Carlson Mary E. E. Peterson
Chris Nelson Dave Nethercott David C. Pearson Pat Morey
Valerie Swanson Larry Day Janice L. Wyma Marie Schroeder
Douglas Carlson Roy C. Dalton Dennis Nyholm Ellwood Dahlberg
G. Dean Ericson G. William Carlson M. Kling Dave Frykman
Donald Cervin Dwight Jessup Della Shupe Bonnie Begy
Chuck Myrbo Richard Ward Barbara Stocking Donovan Kramer
Janet Carlson George Robinson Carol Pearson Duane Lindblom
Pat Faxon William C. Youngblood, Jr. Jane Ahlquist Dean Lindberg
Arnold W. Bergstrom, Jr. Lee Bajuniemi Dale A. Saxon David McKnight
A. Dean Pearson Marjorie M. Rusche Marleen Delamarian Mark Swenson
Steven Paul Duininck Murray Sitte Ines Bowers William C. Johnson
Jean Dow Thomas E. Stocking David Whitney James E. Johnson
Steve Gilbert Barry Anderson James L. Mason Jon Fagerson
Peter Wicklund Thomas W. Mesaros James William Treece, Jr. Stu Luckman
Bob Vork R. M. Steward R Steinhaus Robert Clark Nelson
Barb Johnson Tom Swanson Margaret Dewey Jim Sheldon
Steve Eckstrom Bob Olsen Junet E. Runbeck Grace Ross
Dick Hunter Barb Mueller Heidi Waitschies Gene H. Peterson
Rodney Larson Howard Green Dick Ericson O. S Olsen
Greg Brunko Kent Stock Robert Dejdar A. Glenn
David Shupe Paul Swanson Tim Brubaker C. Weintz
Vic Verni Keith R. Anderson Judy Roushey Jerry Healy
Paul S. Dykstra Bill Painter Linda Torell Rolland Hein
Rob Grabenkort Susan Kahl Joyce Bristow Jim Anderson
Ken Hanson Sam Griffith Linda Miller Philip R. Carlson
Mike Barnes John Olander Wally Borner Maurice Shields
Davie Petit Richard Berggren Fran Moore
Conny Johnson Rich Neufeld David L. Anderson paid advertisement by
concerned students and faculty
Marge and Wayne Erickson, houseparents at Falcon Manor
—formerly housing Bethel men—have had to make some
adjustments since the girls moved in.
Guys and girls habits differ
Bethel community plans Fed. court rules
Moratorium activities right of counsel
by Arne Bergstrom
Plans for activities for October
15th Vietnam Moratorium are well
under way at Bethel. A committee
of concerned students are meeting
Saturday to finalize the plans. The
committee is composed of students
from several different areas of in-terest
on campus. Activities are
planned throughout the metropoli-tan
area as well as at Bethel.
A special chapel service is plan-ned
to give students a concern for
peace and a view of the Christian's
response to the world today. The
speaker for the service will be Dr.
Philip Hinerman of Park Avenue
Methodist Church in Minneapolis.
An emphasis on prayer and medita-tion
for peace and Vietnam will
follow the service. Small groups
are urged to gather informally for
prayer and meditation around cam-pus.
An academic study of the Viet-nam
situation will be held starting
at 1:30 p.m. A teach-in for the pur-pose
of studying the history of
Southeast Asia and how it relates
to the current problems will initi-ate
the activities. Members of the
political science department will
conduct the teach-in.
A symposium for the purpose
of inter-action between the two
sides on ideas in question will also
be held. It is planned as an op-portunity
for those of differing
views to interact on a more for-mal,
academic level. It will not be
a place for emotional attacks on
opposing sides, but a chance for
the differing sides to sit down to-gether
for discussion.
The purpose of the afternoon
moratorium activities at Bethel is
to make us as Christians more
aware of situations present in the
world today. It is necessary to
realize not only the oneness in
Jesus, but also that individuals are
uniquely different and are no less
human because of it. The accept-ance
of this uniqueness is the ba-sis
for the understanding which is
necessary in the discussing of dif-fering
viewpoints.
The evening's activities include
a rally at the Macalester Field-house.
The rally begins at 7:30
p.m. with Julian Bond, State Legis-lator
from Georgia, and Walter
Mondale, US Senator from Minne-sota,
as the main speakers. Bus
service is presently being planned
to bring participating students back
to the college. More specific infor-mation
as to bus transportation
will be posted around the campus
and in the Daily Calendar.
Activities for those who are more
politically inclined have been plan-ned
by the Minnesota New Mo-bilization
Committee. There will
be a 9 a.m. rally at the University
of Minnesota, at 10 a.m. a march
to the Federal Building, and sev-eral
afternoon teach-ins at the
University of Minnesota. Informa-tion
on further developments will
also be posted around the campus.
Students and faculty are urged
to become involved in the activi-ties
even if just to become more
informed on the whole question
and its relationship to the Chris-tian
life.
(CPS)—The San Francisco Fe-deral
court has handed down a
draft decision that could signifi-cantly
disrupt draft procedure
while freeing a number of present
1-Aers from induction.
Judge Robert I. Peckham ruled
this week that universally enforced
regulation that prevents draft re-gistrants
from being accompanied
by legal counsel when summoned
before a local draft board is in-valid
and "constitutionally suspect."
Judge Peckham was the magis-trate
who ruled earlier this year
that members of draft boards must
be residents of the area from which
they send men.
Those men who have appeared
before draft boards, usually on
summons for being delinquent in
registration, and who have stood
mute or requested the assistance
of an attorney or counsel have nor-mally
been held in contempt and
clasified 1-A. Their classifications
are now invalid and most draft
boards will probably simply ignore
them rather than submitting to the
legal rigamaroll necessary to
change the person's classification
or validate the 1-A status.
Judge Peckham clearly ruled
that only Congress can refuse the
right of counsel for any person
being interogated by federal insti-tutions
and that no legal delegation
of this power had ever been grant-ed
by the President (and through
him local draft boards). Besides,
Peckham continued, such a dele-gation
would be "constitutionally
suspect."
The decision affects all draft
'boards under jurisdiction of the
government unless challenged or
overturned in higher court.
Friday, October 10, 1969
by Cindy Rostollan
"The differences between being
houseparents to girls and house-parents
to guys? Boy, that's really
hard to say because we had no pre-conceived
ideas about it. You do
have to get used to seeing skirts
and coulottes instead of pants with
hair, well, it's still very hard to
say."
Wayne and Marg Erickson are
houseparents in Falcon Manor, and
after having guys around for two
years, they are now learning to be
"Mom and Dad" to the opposite
sex of students. Marg, a senior and
speech major, has had a chance to
see her kids in all different set-tings.
Wayne, the bread-winner,
meets them most often on the
"home front."
Marg says, "I think that prob-ably
the best difference is that I
finally have someone to do some
real exercises with! I looked so
funny doing those push-ups alone
last year!! Oh, and I never have
to ask Wayne to change light-bulbs
in the apartments anymore...00ps,
I guess that really isn't fair to say.
"The kids really make different
kinds of noises too. The guys make
more of a 'solid' kind, rather like
bodies falling. The girls? It's hard
to explain, but it is really far
lighter!
"We noticed that the girls eat
much less than the guys, I mean
this year we had left-overs from
the luncheon we gave. That was
quite unusual. We really haven't
smelled any burned food yet, but
then, the guys were good cooks
too."
Both Marg and Wayne really see
a difference when Sunday after-noon
rolls around. Sunday after-noon
is football time, and for some
strange reason, there are never
any girls down to watch the games
with them. They both agree, it gets
pretty lonesome, especially when
at least ten of the guys joined them
every Sunday last year.
"There is one nice thing about
the girls though. Lately, there
really isn't a parking problem be-hind
the apartment building, and
that's rather convenient.
ebetPet Potez
by Pastor Maurice C. Larson
Dr. Stanley Hardwick will bring
his second message in the series,
"Life-changing Ideas," when he
speaks on Monday morning. Ano-ther
group of students who served
as missionaries this past summer
will bring their report on Tuesday.
Wednesday will be a "chapel of
concern" when we will be given
the opportunity to respond as a
total Christian community to the
cry for peace. The chapel is in
conjunction with the Vietnam Mor-atorium
planned that day.
Dr. Edgar Carlson, executive di-rector
of the Minnesota Private
College Council, will speak at the
Thursday chapel. On Friday, Rev.
Herbert Anderson, representative
of the Conservative Baptist For-eign
Mission Board will speak.
Faculty plans interim
from page 1
Creative Dramatics with Children—
Don Rainbow; Rhetoric of Racial
Revolt — David Whitney and Steve
Terrell; and Curricular Changes in
American Higher Education offered
by Virgil Olson.
Subsequent Clarion articles in-clude
a more detailed account of
what to expect from each course.
A brochure describing the courses
will be available to students soon.
There will be an opportunity to
discuss the courses with the in-structor
before registration t h e
first week in November.
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Friday, October 10, 1969
Royals' determined soccer team kicked their way to another victory at their first home
game Tuesday afternoon.
Soccer team wins one, loses one
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The Column
by Tim Weko
Rumor has it .. .
. . . that Bob Olson won a bet on the Viking-Packer football game
last Sunday.
. . . that Gordon Nordmark (Second New) has a contract out on
Don Larson (Falcon) in the intramural football showdown this Saturday.
. . . that last year's Twin City Hockey League champions from
Upper Glader hovel moved their franchise to Upper Esther and are
looking for a real challenge from a new team from Lower Shields in
the Sunday morning circuit this winter.
. . . that the music department will get more floor time in the
fieldhouse this coming season than the basketball team will.
.. . that Midway stadium will be packed with Bethel fans Satur-day
afternoon to watch (and cheer) as the Royals avenge last year's
whipping from Jamestown.
.. . that the cross country team has become sick of taking second
place finishes and with some fan support will win their next meet at
home against Stout, Eau Claire and Gustavus.
. .. that a lot of people liked what "The Column" said last week,
but did not apply it to themselves.
Cross country team takes
second place at Como
The soccer team traveled to their
first defeat last Saturday b u t
bounced back with a big win in
their first home game as they
edged their season mark to two
wins and a loss.
It was a long one-game road trip
to Trinity College in Deerfield,
Illinois, where the first setback
came. Both the offence and defence
worked hard, but could not muster
a scoring kick. Meanwhile, Trinity
mounted a 2-0 lead in the first
half and scored an insurance tally
in the last half to walk off the
field with a 3-0 victory.
The game was clean fought and
well played with the home team
having a little more experience
and finesse to have the edge.
Tuesday's game was a complete
turn - around. Bethany Lutheran
Junior College from Mankato pro-vided
the competition, and a brisk
wind provided a problem of ball
control. And it was not a cleanly
fought contest.
Bethel won by a score of 4-3
and though the score was close
throughout the game, the Royals
dominated on offense.
Striking early, Bethel got sev-eral
shots off in the first few
minutes and with only three and
a half minutes gone, Pete Wicklund
took a centering pass and slammed
it in to break the ice.
With the wind advantage in the
first half, Bethel kept the attack
Intramural Football Results
October 4, 1969
Second New vs. New Dorm 2-0
Off Campus vs. Third New 7-6
Faculty vs. Pit 21-0
First Floor vs. Second Old 19-0
Falcon vs. Third Old (forfeit) 1-0
Standings
Team
Win Lost
1. Falcon 4 0
2. Second New 3 0
3. Faculty 3 1
down in the Bethany defensive
zone. However, with the Bethel
halfbacks playing up, Bethany man-aged
to get the ball down into the
attacking zone with only two full-backs
to guard against the advanc-ing
wall of Bethany Vikings. They
knotted the score with 16:30 gone
in the 45 minute first half.
With lots of determination, the
Royals kept working for a goal
and ten minutes after the Bethany
goal, Pete Wicklund rippled the
nets with his second goal. Two
minutes later, Lee Granlund drove
home a shot to boost the lead to
3-1.
Near the end of the first half,
Bethany drew within one as they
scored for the second time, with
the ball bouncing off the goal
post and being booted into the
net.
With Bethel fighting the wind,
the second half was a little more
tense. Play seemed more evenly
matched as each team exchanged
scoring threats. Perhaps the big-gest
boost the Bethel offence had
was the play of half-back Tim
Larson. Larson stole the ball sev-eral
times and manuevered his way
upfield until he could feed the
wing. Danny Peterson, the center-half,
also made a great contribution
with his booming kicks.
Finally, after each team h a d
made several unsuccessful attempts
to score, Dan Anderson took the
4. Off Campus 3 1
5. First Floor 2 2
6. Second Old 1 2
7. Third New 1 3
8. New Dorm 1 3
9. Pit 1 3
10. Third Old 0 4
Schedule for Oct. 11
9:30 Off Campus vs. New Dorm
Third New vs. Faculty
10:30 Second New vs. Falcon
Pit vs. Second Ond
Third Old vs. First Floor
ball in front of the goal area after
a big scramble and scored what
proved to be the winning goal.
With only six minutes left, Beth-any
scored their final goal which
kept the tension up 'til the ending
whistle.
Despite the bad playing condi-tions,
each player showed great
effort. Jon Nordstrom handled the
goal well and was assisted by co-captain
Jerry Jenfa at fullback.
Joel Goff played extremely well
leading the attack and helping out
on defence on occasion as did Jon
Lewis. A small group of fans also
helped the team with their spirited
cheering.
The team will be going after
their second straight this Saturday
as they travel to Northfield, Minne-sota,
for a 10:30 encounter with
Carleton. After the trip to Carleton,
the rest of the games will be
either home games or with Twin
City colleges.
by Richard Zaderaka
Several loyal Bethel fans braved
the drizzly weather in Morris, Min-nesota,
Saturday afternoon, to
watch the Royals fall 31-0 to the
University of Minnesota Cougars.
Morris scored 14 points in each of
In the first home meet of the
year for the Royals cross country
team, the harriers took a tough
second place.
On a beautiful, sunny day last
Saturday, the Bethel Royals hosted
Hamline, Gustavus Adolphus, and
Golden Vally, at the home course
in Como Park. It was a great day
for running and a great day for
watching too, though very few
spectators showed up.
All the Royal runners seemed
ready to go, and they nearly pulled
off a victory settling for second
place as Golden Valley took it all.
Golden Valley was first with 47
points, Bethel second with 48,
Hamline third with 49. Gustavus
brought up the rear with 63.
Once again Dwight Carlson
paced the Royals and finished
fourth, over-all, right ahead of up
and coming freshman Mark Ander-son
who took fifth. Next for Bethel
the first two periods to take a 28-0
half-time lead.
Doug Patnode scored two touch-downs
and gained 134 yards in 14
carries to lead the Morris offense.
The Cougars only score in the
second half was a 25 yard field
goal by Ed Salcede.
was Rich Swanson who developed
a side ache on the third lap and
had to settle for twelveth position.
Paul Youngquist and Tom Mesaros
finished right behind Swanson in
the thirteenth and fourteenth spots.
Dave Greener and Bob Downey also
ran to finish out the Royal roster.
Prior to the meet, the Royals
held a practice meet with St. Tho-mas
on Thursday which St. Thomas
won. Anderson, Carlson, and Swan-son
took the top Royal positions
at the time also.
Next week (the remainder of the
season) the Royals will be at home
against Stout State (Wisconsin),
Eau Claire (Wisconsin) and again
against Gustavus Adolphus.
The meet will offer really good
competition, and the race will pro-bably
be pretty exciting. The team
needs fan support badly so if at
all possible, come down to the Co-mo
course at eleven Saturday morn-ing.
Frequent showers during the
game lessened the player's maneu-verability,
but didn't dampen their
spirits. Although the Royals were
actually out of the game by the
end of the first half, they charged
up during the half-time break and
battled Morris to a virtual stand-off
during the second half.
Outstanding players for Bethel
were Murray Sitte, who led the
team in rushing with 68 yards in
13 carries; Fred Swedberg, who
averaged 46 yards per punt; Tom
Swanson, who fired up the defense
during the second half and re-covered
a fumble; and Jim Carl-son,
who made several tackles on
punts and kickoffs. Bob Olson, Bar-ry
Anderson, and Dave Pound also
gave their usual fine efforts.
This week the Royals tune up for
their homcoming contest by tackl-ing
Jamestown, North D a k o t a.
Jamestown has a record of 4-0 go-ing
into the game and is the lead-ing
rushing team in the NAIA. If
the second half of the Morris game
is any indication of what is to
come, the Royals should put up
quite a battle this Saturday.
Tetameeitata
First half scoring by Morris Cougars
dampens Bethel Royals in the drizzle

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Vol. XLV—No. 6
Bethel College, St. Paul Minn. Friday, October 10, 1969
Mauk takes charge
Spire changes format; gains an editor
The Everyman Players will present 'The Book of Job' at
Bethel Friday, October 17.
by Marjorie Rusche
Marty Mauk, sophomore, is this
year's editor of the Spire. Marty
comes to Bethel from Des Moines,
Iowa. He plans on pursuing a history
major.
Marty was a sports announcer
for WBCS last year, participated
in Intramurals last year and this
year. His interest in the Spire
developed through working on it
as a staff member last year.
The Communications Board has
screened Marty for the position,
and will be working with him
throughout the year.
What got Marty excited about
being editor is the change in the
format of the yearbook. This year,
the Spire will deal with one basic
Orlin and Irene Corney will bring
two productions of religious thea-ter
into the Twin Cities next week-end.
The two famous theater di-rectors,
designers and writers have
brought their Everyman Players
out of Pineville, Kentucky, for the
third national tour. "The Book of
Job" which began this enterprize
in 1956, and the later "The Romans
According to Saint Paul" will both
appear in the area.
The company will present "The
Book of Job" at a special convoca-tion
on October 17 at 8 p.m. in
the college fieldhouse. Admission
is free if you bring and present a
Bethel I.D. card. Tickets for the
general public will be sold at the
door.
The actors appear as living mo-saic
figures, gleaming in brilliant
costumes of red and gold, blue
and purple. Mosaic make-up masks
the faces, and the magnificent Eli-zabethan
English of the Authorized
version is the language spoken in
a triumph of choral drama.
The two plays are evolutionary
works. In 1956 the Baptist Churches
in England asked Corey, who was
then Theater Director in George-town
College in Kentucky, to tour
a theater production. He began to
search for material and eventually
chose the original language of the
King James Translation of the
earliest book of the Bible. He re-arranged
it to make an effective
stage statement and then followed
the implications of the language
itself.
theme, "What is the 'soul' of Beth-el?"
The social, academic, and spir-itual
life of Bethel students will
be investigated.
There won't be any more mug
shots, group shots or organizations
and athletic teams, faculty or ad-ministration.
All these aspects of
college life will be included, but
the photography will be more can-did
and personal. Senior pictures,
however, will probably be retained.
Marty emphasizes, "We are try-ing
to get away from students
flipping through the yearbook and
looking for their own picture or
pictures as a couple of pages in
their own life; instead, we want
students to look at the yearbook as
a book that combines the individu-
The play uses the earliest form
of drama, the Greek Chorus, as
the friends of Job oppose him in
unison and the women support him
in chorus. It is recitative without a
score. The voices speak, moan,
chant, whisper, and groan as the
terrible trials of Job follow the
debate between Satan and God
over Job's virtue.
More than one hundred tableaux
developed out of the writing and
then Irene Corey took over. The
Byzantines had wanted to picture
God as they knew the story, but in
a way that was larger than life.
Irene Corey saw that parallel and
designed the costumes in Byzantine
style with wigs, costumes, gloves
and shoes all a part of the jewelled
and glass mosaics which have in-spired
audiences so much. With
lights and makup, no scenery is
needed. The mosiac structure and
the stark chorus responses make
Corey's point.
The first performance of "The
Book of Job" was in the college
chapel at Georgetown. The re-sponse
was overwhelming and it
predated the Archibald MacLeish
"J.B." on Broadway by a year.
Many critics have suggested a dou-ble
bill of the Coreys' play and
"J.B."
In 1957 the opening was followed
by tours of churches in Kentucky,
then to the General Association of
Kentucky Baptists in 1958, televi-sion
in Louisville and a Canadian
performance on the way to Eu-al's
own life with the life of Beth-el."
Students are encouraged to turn
in any candid shots they may
have. Marty also plans on using
material from graphic classes, cre-ative
and journalistic writing from
some of the Coeval and Clarion
staff.
"The staff for the Spire will be
open to new ideas because we are
completely throwing away the old
format of the yearbook and de-veloping
a new one," Marty states.
"So if you have any suggestions,
or want to work on the yearbook,
come to the staff meeting Thurs-day,
October 16, at 7 p.m. in the
coffee shop."
According to present plans the
Spire will come out in the spring.
rope. The International Protestant
Commission asked that it be the
final religious feature of United
States Week at the Brussel's World
Fair.
In the fall of the year the Southern
Governor's Conference saw
what was to have been the final
production in a precedent break-ing
performance for that group.
But the success there received too
much publicity and the play has
never stopped.
In 1959 "The Book of Job" open-ed
in The Cathedral of the Hills
at Pineville, Kentucky, where it has
played each summer since. It was
supposed to fail, according to ex-perience,
but instead it has played
to visitors of everyone of the 50
states and many European nations.
It played for three consecutive
seasons in New York, made three
European tours and is now on its
third American tour.
The play and its purpose are
designed from ancient language
and a 3,000 year old story in the
midst of modern questions about
magnitude in theatrical terms. Cor-ey
believes that in this age of
answers by knowledge, there re-mains
a question which traces an
arch back to God, and his play is
motivated in that way.
The Coreys are people of com-mitment
to a responsible theater
of values for man, and are promi-nently
identified with religious
drama and children's theater in
America and abroad.
News of the plans for interim
have finally been released. At the
faculty meeting October 2, faculty
members approved the list of
courses recommended by the Interim
Committee report, and final-ized
general financial, housing and
curriculum arrangements.
Interim will run from January
7-28.
The student who is enrolled in
both semesters at Bethel, will be
charged no extra for the interim
course or for housing during that
time. Those who are attending or
will attend only one semester, will
be required to pay half of the
normal charge for a three credit
course—$93.75. One semester stu-dents
will also be charged $22.50
for room and board if they decide
to stay on campus. The half charge
policy was decided upon in view
of the fact that the cost of interim
is being drawn from the two sem-ester
cost.
Working students who are not
taking an interim course, but wish
to stay in campus housing, will be
charged the normal cost of room
and board for this period. Stu-dents
who are neither working nor
taking an interim course will not
be permitted to remain on campus.
An attempt to house commuting
students who wish to live on cam-pus
during the interim will also
be made.
The wish on the part of Interim
Committee is to create unity of
spirit, a total experience by pro-viding
for spiritual and recreation-al
needs of the students as well
as the academic.
According to the Interim Committee
chairman Philip Carlson,
students should plan to spend 6-8
hours per day on their interim
course. The exact amount of time
will depend upon the instructor
and the nature of the course. In
most cases however, evenings will
by Marge Erickson
Bethel debaters won nine of their
twelve rounds of debate at the
season's opening debate tourna-ment
at the University of Wisconsin-
Whitewater this last weekend,
September 4.
The tournament was a powerful
one and included nearly 40 schools
and over 100 teams from Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin,
Michigan, South Dakota and
Minnesota.
be free and it is the intent of the
committee to make the interim,
in the words of Philip Carlson, "as
an exciting a time on campus as
possible."
Interim courses will each be
worth three credits and will be
evaluated on the pass/fail basis.
None of the courses offered in the
regular semester curriculum will
be duplicated during interim. De-partments
will be deciding in the
near future how they plan to ca-tegorize
the interim course.
With the exception of the Israel
tour, there will be no travel tours.
The committee felt that in view of
the short amount of time available
for organizing such tours it would
be better to disallow them this
first year. The trip to Israel is
being planned by a national group
and arrangements have already
been made. Future travel tours will
probably be included in the interim
curriculum.
The courses offered this year
include: Seeing, Knowing, and Be-lieving
taught by Robert Nelson,
and print making—George Robin-son;
Ecology and Man — Russell
Johnson; The Study Tour to Israel
— Robert Stein; Schools in the
Inner City — Richard Harris and
Junet Runbeck; Intensive Study of
an Author or Period in Literature
— Gerald Healy or Joannine Bohl-meyer.
French Culture (which will be
conducted in the English language)
— Richard Holt and Gerald La-
Roche; German House — Heidi
Waitschies; Spanish House — Leon
Narvaes; Introduction to Computer
Programming — Philip Carlson,
Physics 'Lab Projects — Robert
Carlsen and Spectroscopy — Dale
Stephens and James Rodgers.
The Student in Social Problems
— Richard Steinhaus and Social
Science Research — James Treece;
cont'd on page 3
Bob Elliot and Barb Johnson plac-ed
6th of 58 teams in the Novice
division with 4 wins and no losses.
Marg Erickson and Carol Shimmin
won 3 rounds and lost one, placing
eleventh. The affirmative team,
Julie Palen and Erlene Trude, went
2-2 and placed well into the top
one-third of the debating teams.
The teams will be leaving again
September 10 for another try for
the top at a tournament in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota.
Faculty finalizes
plans for interim
Everyman Players will present 'The Book of Job'
Debate opener viewed a success
by Dave E I !wood
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THE NEW COALITION
by Tom Ford
Upon making a careful scrutiny of the results of a recent Harris
Survey, we find some very interesting insights into racism. The results
of this survey are further substantiation of other public opinion and
sociological surveys of the last year.
The White American has an amazing capacity for overlooking or
sidestepping reality. In response to the question, "Do you feel that
Negroes are discriminated against in the way they are treated?", whites
responded 35% yes, 54% no. In contrast, the black response was 77%
yes, 15% no. Obviously, a good number of the white population have a
very large blindspot.
The white response, however, was quite lopsided and stratified.
By age groups, whites under 30 said yes in 56% of their responses, while
those over 50 answered yes only 28% of the time. College graduates
also varied with those with lesser education: 54% yes as compared to
24% yes, respectively.
It is extremely difficult to believe that so many whites are capable
of denying the existence of discrimination.
Take a trip to the deep South. See the pitiful condition of the
black school systems. Sit in one of the overwhelming number of
restaurants that ignore, without technically "discriminating." Walk
down a city street on a hot evening and see the blacks sitting around,
on "their" side of the street. Hear the repeated slur, "Bay" slip from
arrogant white lips.
Or if the South isn't for you, go north and see what ghetto housing is
in Harlem, Watts, Hough. Talk to a talented black musician who
is the choir director of a large Methodist church, though he is not
permitted membership. Get to know a brilliant young engineer who has
been forced into menial labor because he is black.
In the stratification of the white response, Mr. Harris sees hope
for the rise of a "New Coalition" of civil rights forces. The groups
most sympathetic to the cause of racial equality are the fastest growing
in our population — those under 30 and the college-educated. Combined
with the black vote and other minorities this coalition should be a
majority of the electorate by 1972.
This presents a problem to Richard Nixon and Attorney General
Mitchell's strategy. The conservative elements that they are catering
to are a shrinking portion of the voting population. Either Mr. Nixon
must change his position or face a difficult re-election bid. One way or
another, things must change.
page 2
the CLARION Friday, October 10, 1969
ONWARD
Change seen inevitable
Almost everything that can be said about the war in Vietnam has
already been said. Being against it is now becoming popular. For
those who have been involved against it for some time, it's a little
sad.
The fact that the stigma of this protest is lessening is a victory,
but in the victory, there is a sense of defeat as one recalls the irreparable
damage done to some individuals in the change of public opinion.
The sense of defeat lies in the realization that this victory for
change is only one battle won — the realization that there lies ahead
many unpopular causes which will in time be "the thing to do."
It seems that after experiencing one such reversal of opinion as
has taken place concerning the war in Vietnam that people would
approach change with less emotionalism and more rational thinking.
Much as most people hate to admit it, change is the very essense
of being alive. Something which remains always the same, soon be-comes
stagnant and meaningless. Even things which seemingly never
change, such as Christmas or Thanksgiving, change in the minds of
the participant and thus retain their usefulness.
That the physical world is continually changing, one cannot deny.
In order to continue to relate to it, attitudes must change also. As
the rate of change continues to increase, so must the rate at which
attitudes change.
Educated individuals, especially, should understand this principle.
Change is inevitable. Christian individuals should continually evaluate
the present and anticipate the change so that in fighting for an un-shakeable
principle, they do not find themselves defending a mere
cultural ethnocentrism which is irrelevant, or even contrary, to their
relationship with God.
CHR1ST/AN Ushers needed
forPhilharmonic
The St. Paul Philharmonic Soc-iety
is offering the opportunity to
enjoy the music of their season
for the price of transportation to
the concerts. They are in need of
ushers for the 16 Sunday Concert
Capital Series and for the 5 Con-certs
at Macalester College, The
Exploration 70. Any one who is
interested is qualified.
Ushers are required to come to
the concert one hour before sched-uled
opening and seat patrons until
the performance begins. His duties
completed, and he may sit and
enjoy the music.
If you are interested, please call
the St. Paul Philharmonic office,
225-6571 during the day or Mrs.
Dorothy Handford, 646-0040, during
the evening. Leave your name,
address and phone number and in-dicate
the series you wish to attend.
You will be contacted within a few
days regarding your assignment.
Live your humanity to the fullest! Bethel athletics
deserve analysis
To the editor:
To the editor:
Tradition says that there is a
"battle royal" raging within my
soul. It tells me that I am both the
host of tremendous struggle be-tween
the supernatural, the super-latives
of morality, and that my
eternal destiny may well be deter-mined
by the outcome.
Actually, this "battle royal" is
usually no more than a few border-line
skermishes. Yet there is a
struggle of a different n a t u r e,
which does exist in every person.
Like the traditional view, it in-volves
my eternity, but it is that
part of my eternal life in Christ
that I live right here in earth.
It seems as though there is an
ever-present obsession for people
to develope a style of life which
has been firmly anchored in the
middle of the road. Everyone is
looking for the easy way out, or in,
as the case may be. How many peo-ple
do you know whose ultimate
goal in life is to find a nook where
they are cozy, content, and com-fortable?
There is one dominating princi-ple
involved in this type of life—
"Don't do it, think it, or feel it,
unless it's convenient." This is the
secret for the "well-adjusted life"!
If it puts you out in any way, for-get
it. If it makes you hurt a little
or puts you on that limb, junk it.
For me, this life of comfort would
not be so undesirable if it didn't
involve the sacrifices which must
accompany it. For a life in the mid-dle
does demand that you forfeit
certain things.
First to insure that you aren't in
anyway influenced by any out-lying
forces which may cause you to wan-der
to one side or the other, you
must narrow your field of vision.
You must cut your scope to the
point where all you can see is that
white-dotted line shraight ahead.
This makes you blind to the beg-gar
lying in the roadside. Were
you to stop and dig down under
those rags, you'd be shocked to
discover that the beggar resembled
a hundred different people who
had shown you need you refused to
see, needs you may have met by
taking five "inconvenient" minutes
of your time.
But life in the middle can also
dull other senses. And soon a
deafening cry for help is filtered
through a strong and polished
mess of rationale, and all you
perceive is a faint and distant
echo.
But the biggest price we pay for
walking this road is that we lose
that intensity and deep feeling for
life that comes only when we ex-pend
ourselves. We must dare to
care, no matter what the cost. We
can choose to begin or end once
every moment.
As Christians, this should be a
lifetime of continual beginnings in
which we, hand in hand with Christ
can experience a new dynamic type
of living. This life style gives me
a freedom I could otherwise never
experience, a "more abundant life."
I don't have to get hung up on
my guilt, because that moment of
failure was followed by another
moment, one in which Christ and I
can start again where we left off.
And I don't have to be afraid of
things "of this world." To para-phrase
Ted Weis, I can listen to,
look at, and experience a lot of
different things. If they're wrong,
Christ will let me know. But in
either case, right or wrong, I can
learn, and this will make me a
stronger Christian, because Christ
and I have a moving and function-ing
relationship. Newness and
change are no longer threatening
to my faith.
In the middle of the road, no
matter how straight and narrow it
may be, all I see is white on black.
All I hear are my own shuffling
feet. All I feel is my own hunger,
thirst, and incapacitating fear of
humanity.
Christ saw, Christ listened, Christ
felt. Christ lived his humanity to
the fullest.
If you're afraid to try living
Christ in this way, I hope you enjoy
walking down very long, narrow,
and "super" straight highways.
Barry Anderson
In reference to Mr. Weko's re-marks,
as expressed in The Column
of October 3, be pleased to accept
the reactions of one interested on-looker,
to wit:
The essence of Mr. W e k o's
thought concerning Bethel football
is indisputable and, by the way,
quite commendable. There is, as he
emphatically suggests, no room for
indiscriminate criticism of either
the football team, or athletics in
general. There is, on the other
hand, as he apparently overlooks,
a definite place for intelligent an-alyzation
of the situation.
The football team deserves sup-port,
if for no other reason than
the work which each player puts
in. It is obvious, though, that sup-port
will not be rendered on this
ground alone .The why's and where-fore's
are many.
Consider this year's schedule.
To be sure, it is desirable to play
such teams as Macalaster, Hamline,
Morris, et al.; Bethel has had, and
possibly will have teams that can
compete comparably with the
schools mentioned. Until such time,
however, let us approach the mat-ter
sensibly.
While not advocating the deli-berate
scheduling of "pushovers,"
this observer would like to see a
more realistic asessment of the
team's potential before contracting
teams that are obviously out of
Bethel's class. Granted, schedules
are made in advance. But so are
good football teams.
This leads to the problem of
numbers and although bodies do
not make a successful football
team, they certainly constitute a
good start. Why don't prospective
athletes get excited about playing
football for Bethel? Why is it be-coming
increasingly difficult even
to field a team?
The most obvious answer to these
questions is yet another: Who
wants to play for a loser? But the
problem is much deeper and would
at this point seem to parallel Mr.
Weko's arguments. Who wants to
play for a school which, for the
most part, doesn't seem to care one
way or another whether it has a
team or not?
But while Mr. Weko would blind-ly
argue for continuation of the
football program under the con-ditions
that exist, this observer
would venture a cautious opinion.
If winless seasons, lack of players,
and student unconcern continue,
perhaps Bethel would be better off
without football. Such would be a
most unfortunate occurrence, but,
to steal a phrase tram Keith Te-kautz:
"Get on the ball or get on
the bus."
David Healy
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I3ETHEL FORUM
Vietnam Moratorium Statement
(Concerned Committee of Students and Faculty)
As members of the Bethel community we wish to express our
concern about the American military involvement in Vietnam. We
believe that that involvement is incompatible with the moral and
humanitarian ideals as expressed by Jesus Christ. Therefore we
recommend:
(a) that the American government disengage itself from the
Vietnam war;
(b) that the American government re-think its use of war as an
active instrument of foreign policy; and
(c) that the American government reorient its policies toward
peaceful solutions of human problems at home and abroad.
Signed:
Maurice Zaffke Jan Ullberg Clayton W. Carlson Mary E. E. Peterson
Chris Nelson Dave Nethercott David C. Pearson Pat Morey
Valerie Swanson Larry Day Janice L. Wyma Marie Schroeder
Douglas Carlson Roy C. Dalton Dennis Nyholm Ellwood Dahlberg
G. Dean Ericson G. William Carlson M. Kling Dave Frykman
Donald Cervin Dwight Jessup Della Shupe Bonnie Begy
Chuck Myrbo Richard Ward Barbara Stocking Donovan Kramer
Janet Carlson George Robinson Carol Pearson Duane Lindblom
Pat Faxon William C. Youngblood, Jr. Jane Ahlquist Dean Lindberg
Arnold W. Bergstrom, Jr. Lee Bajuniemi Dale A. Saxon David McKnight
A. Dean Pearson Marjorie M. Rusche Marleen Delamarian Mark Swenson
Steven Paul Duininck Murray Sitte Ines Bowers William C. Johnson
Jean Dow Thomas E. Stocking David Whitney James E. Johnson
Steve Gilbert Barry Anderson James L. Mason Jon Fagerson
Peter Wicklund Thomas W. Mesaros James William Treece, Jr. Stu Luckman
Bob Vork R. M. Steward R Steinhaus Robert Clark Nelson
Barb Johnson Tom Swanson Margaret Dewey Jim Sheldon
Steve Eckstrom Bob Olsen Junet E. Runbeck Grace Ross
Dick Hunter Barb Mueller Heidi Waitschies Gene H. Peterson
Rodney Larson Howard Green Dick Ericson O. S Olsen
Greg Brunko Kent Stock Robert Dejdar A. Glenn
David Shupe Paul Swanson Tim Brubaker C. Weintz
Vic Verni Keith R. Anderson Judy Roushey Jerry Healy
Paul S. Dykstra Bill Painter Linda Torell Rolland Hein
Rob Grabenkort Susan Kahl Joyce Bristow Jim Anderson
Ken Hanson Sam Griffith Linda Miller Philip R. Carlson
Mike Barnes John Olander Wally Borner Maurice Shields
Davie Petit Richard Berggren Fran Moore
Conny Johnson Rich Neufeld David L. Anderson paid advertisement by
concerned students and faculty
Marge and Wayne Erickson, houseparents at Falcon Manor
—formerly housing Bethel men—have had to make some
adjustments since the girls moved in.
Guys and girls habits differ
Bethel community plans Fed. court rules
Moratorium activities right of counsel
by Arne Bergstrom
Plans for activities for October
15th Vietnam Moratorium are well
under way at Bethel. A committee
of concerned students are meeting
Saturday to finalize the plans. The
committee is composed of students
from several different areas of in-terest
on campus. Activities are
planned throughout the metropoli-tan
area as well as at Bethel.
A special chapel service is plan-ned
to give students a concern for
peace and a view of the Christian's
response to the world today. The
speaker for the service will be Dr.
Philip Hinerman of Park Avenue
Methodist Church in Minneapolis.
An emphasis on prayer and medita-tion
for peace and Vietnam will
follow the service. Small groups
are urged to gather informally for
prayer and meditation around cam-pus.
An academic study of the Viet-nam
situation will be held starting
at 1:30 p.m. A teach-in for the pur-pose
of studying the history of
Southeast Asia and how it relates
to the current problems will initi-ate
the activities. Members of the
political science department will
conduct the teach-in.
A symposium for the purpose
of inter-action between the two
sides on ideas in question will also
be held. It is planned as an op-portunity
for those of differing
views to interact on a more for-mal,
academic level. It will not be
a place for emotional attacks on
opposing sides, but a chance for
the differing sides to sit down to-gether
for discussion.
The purpose of the afternoon
moratorium activities at Bethel is
to make us as Christians more
aware of situations present in the
world today. It is necessary to
realize not only the oneness in
Jesus, but also that individuals are
uniquely different and are no less
human because of it. The accept-ance
of this uniqueness is the ba-sis
for the understanding which is
necessary in the discussing of dif-fering
viewpoints.
The evening's activities include
a rally at the Macalester Field-house.
The rally begins at 7:30
p.m. with Julian Bond, State Legis-lator
from Georgia, and Walter
Mondale, US Senator from Minne-sota,
as the main speakers. Bus
service is presently being planned
to bring participating students back
to the college. More specific infor-mation
as to bus transportation
will be posted around the campus
and in the Daily Calendar.
Activities for those who are more
politically inclined have been plan-ned
by the Minnesota New Mo-bilization
Committee. There will
be a 9 a.m. rally at the University
of Minnesota, at 10 a.m. a march
to the Federal Building, and sev-eral
afternoon teach-ins at the
University of Minnesota. Informa-tion
on further developments will
also be posted around the campus.
Students and faculty are urged
to become involved in the activi-ties
even if just to become more
informed on the whole question
and its relationship to the Chris-tian
life.
(CPS)—The San Francisco Fe-deral
court has handed down a
draft decision that could signifi-cantly
disrupt draft procedure
while freeing a number of present
1-Aers from induction.
Judge Robert I. Peckham ruled
this week that universally enforced
regulation that prevents draft re-gistrants
from being accompanied
by legal counsel when summoned
before a local draft board is in-valid
and "constitutionally suspect."
Judge Peckham was the magis-trate
who ruled earlier this year
that members of draft boards must
be residents of the area from which
they send men.
Those men who have appeared
before draft boards, usually on
summons for being delinquent in
registration, and who have stood
mute or requested the assistance
of an attorney or counsel have nor-mally
been held in contempt and
clasified 1-A. Their classifications
are now invalid and most draft
boards will probably simply ignore
them rather than submitting to the
legal rigamaroll necessary to
change the person's classification
or validate the 1-A status.
Judge Peckham clearly ruled
that only Congress can refuse the
right of counsel for any person
being interogated by federal insti-tutions
and that no legal delegation
of this power had ever been grant-ed
by the President (and through
him local draft boards). Besides,
Peckham continued, such a dele-gation
would be "constitutionally
suspect."
The decision affects all draft
'boards under jurisdiction of the
government unless challenged or
overturned in higher court.
Friday, October 10, 1969
by Cindy Rostollan
"The differences between being
houseparents to girls and house-parents
to guys? Boy, that's really
hard to say because we had no pre-conceived
ideas about it. You do
have to get used to seeing skirts
and coulottes instead of pants with
hair, well, it's still very hard to
say."
Wayne and Marg Erickson are
houseparents in Falcon Manor, and
after having guys around for two
years, they are now learning to be
"Mom and Dad" to the opposite
sex of students. Marg, a senior and
speech major, has had a chance to
see her kids in all different set-tings.
Wayne, the bread-winner,
meets them most often on the
"home front."
Marg says, "I think that prob-ably
the best difference is that I
finally have someone to do some
real exercises with! I looked so
funny doing those push-ups alone
last year!! Oh, and I never have
to ask Wayne to change light-bulbs
in the apartments anymore...00ps,
I guess that really isn't fair to say.
"The kids really make different
kinds of noises too. The guys make
more of a 'solid' kind, rather like
bodies falling. The girls? It's hard
to explain, but it is really far
lighter!
"We noticed that the girls eat
much less than the guys, I mean
this year we had left-overs from
the luncheon we gave. That was
quite unusual. We really haven't
smelled any burned food yet, but
then, the guys were good cooks
too."
Both Marg and Wayne really see
a difference when Sunday after-noon
rolls around. Sunday after-noon
is football time, and for some
strange reason, there are never
any girls down to watch the games
with them. They both agree, it gets
pretty lonesome, especially when
at least ten of the guys joined them
every Sunday last year.
"There is one nice thing about
the girls though. Lately, there
really isn't a parking problem be-hind
the apartment building, and
that's rather convenient.
ebetPet Potez
by Pastor Maurice C. Larson
Dr. Stanley Hardwick will bring
his second message in the series,
"Life-changing Ideas," when he
speaks on Monday morning. Ano-ther
group of students who served
as missionaries this past summer
will bring their report on Tuesday.
Wednesday will be a "chapel of
concern" when we will be given
the opportunity to respond as a
total Christian community to the
cry for peace. The chapel is in
conjunction with the Vietnam Mor-atorium
planned that day.
Dr. Edgar Carlson, executive di-rector
of the Minnesota Private
College Council, will speak at the
Thursday chapel. On Friday, Rev.
Herbert Anderson, representative
of the Conservative Baptist For-eign
Mission Board will speak.
Faculty plans interim
from page 1
Creative Dramatics with Children—
Don Rainbow; Rhetoric of Racial
Revolt — David Whitney and Steve
Terrell; and Curricular Changes in
American Higher Education offered
by Virgil Olson.
Subsequent Clarion articles in-clude
a more detailed account of
what to expect from each course.
A brochure describing the courses
will be available to students soon.
There will be an opportunity to
discuss the courses with the in-structor
before registration t h e
first week in November.
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Friday, October 10, 1969
Royals' determined soccer team kicked their way to another victory at their first home
game Tuesday afternoon.
Soccer team wins one, loses one
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The Column
by Tim Weko
Rumor has it .. .
. . . that Bob Olson won a bet on the Viking-Packer football game
last Sunday.
. . . that Gordon Nordmark (Second New) has a contract out on
Don Larson (Falcon) in the intramural football showdown this Saturday.
. . . that last year's Twin City Hockey League champions from
Upper Glader hovel moved their franchise to Upper Esther and are
looking for a real challenge from a new team from Lower Shields in
the Sunday morning circuit this winter.
. . . that the music department will get more floor time in the
fieldhouse this coming season than the basketball team will.
.. . that Midway stadium will be packed with Bethel fans Satur-day
afternoon to watch (and cheer) as the Royals avenge last year's
whipping from Jamestown.
.. . that the cross country team has become sick of taking second
place finishes and with some fan support will win their next meet at
home against Stout, Eau Claire and Gustavus.
. .. that a lot of people liked what "The Column" said last week,
but did not apply it to themselves.
Cross country team takes
second place at Como
The soccer team traveled to their
first defeat last Saturday b u t
bounced back with a big win in
their first home game as they
edged their season mark to two
wins and a loss.
It was a long one-game road trip
to Trinity College in Deerfield,
Illinois, where the first setback
came. Both the offence and defence
worked hard, but could not muster
a scoring kick. Meanwhile, Trinity
mounted a 2-0 lead in the first
half and scored an insurance tally
in the last half to walk off the
field with a 3-0 victory.
The game was clean fought and
well played with the home team
having a little more experience
and finesse to have the edge.
Tuesday's game was a complete
turn - around. Bethany Lutheran
Junior College from Mankato pro-vided
the competition, and a brisk
wind provided a problem of ball
control. And it was not a cleanly
fought contest.
Bethel won by a score of 4-3
and though the score was close
throughout the game, the Royals
dominated on offense.
Striking early, Bethel got sev-eral
shots off in the first few
minutes and with only three and
a half minutes gone, Pete Wicklund
took a centering pass and slammed
it in to break the ice.
With the wind advantage in the
first half, Bethel kept the attack
Intramural Football Results
October 4, 1969
Second New vs. New Dorm 2-0
Off Campus vs. Third New 7-6
Faculty vs. Pit 21-0
First Floor vs. Second Old 19-0
Falcon vs. Third Old (forfeit) 1-0
Standings
Team
Win Lost
1. Falcon 4 0
2. Second New 3 0
3. Faculty 3 1
down in the Bethany defensive
zone. However, with the Bethel
halfbacks playing up, Bethany man-aged
to get the ball down into the
attacking zone with only two full-backs
to guard against the advanc-ing
wall of Bethany Vikings. They
knotted the score with 16:30 gone
in the 45 minute first half.
With lots of determination, the
Royals kept working for a goal
and ten minutes after the Bethany
goal, Pete Wicklund rippled the
nets with his second goal. Two
minutes later, Lee Granlund drove
home a shot to boost the lead to
3-1.
Near the end of the first half,
Bethany drew within one as they
scored for the second time, with
the ball bouncing off the goal
post and being booted into the
net.
With Bethel fighting the wind,
the second half was a little more
tense. Play seemed more evenly
matched as each team exchanged
scoring threats. Perhaps the big-gest
boost the Bethel offence had
was the play of half-back Tim
Larson. Larson stole the ball sev-eral
times and manuevered his way
upfield until he could feed the
wing. Danny Peterson, the center-half,
also made a great contribution
with his booming kicks.
Finally, after each team h a d
made several unsuccessful attempts
to score, Dan Anderson took the
4. Off Campus 3 1
5. First Floor 2 2
6. Second Old 1 2
7. Third New 1 3
8. New Dorm 1 3
9. Pit 1 3
10. Third Old 0 4
Schedule for Oct. 11
9:30 Off Campus vs. New Dorm
Third New vs. Faculty
10:30 Second New vs. Falcon
Pit vs. Second Ond
Third Old vs. First Floor
ball in front of the goal area after
a big scramble and scored what
proved to be the winning goal.
With only six minutes left, Beth-any
scored their final goal which
kept the tension up 'til the ending
whistle.
Despite the bad playing condi-tions,
each player showed great
effort. Jon Nordstrom handled the
goal well and was assisted by co-captain
Jerry Jenfa at fullback.
Joel Goff played extremely well
leading the attack and helping out
on defence on occasion as did Jon
Lewis. A small group of fans also
helped the team with their spirited
cheering.
The team will be going after
their second straight this Saturday
as they travel to Northfield, Minne-sota,
for a 10:30 encounter with
Carleton. After the trip to Carleton,
the rest of the games will be
either home games or with Twin
City colleges.
by Richard Zaderaka
Several loyal Bethel fans braved
the drizzly weather in Morris, Min-nesota,
Saturday afternoon, to
watch the Royals fall 31-0 to the
University of Minnesota Cougars.
Morris scored 14 points in each of
In the first home meet of the
year for the Royals cross country
team, the harriers took a tough
second place.
On a beautiful, sunny day last
Saturday, the Bethel Royals hosted
Hamline, Gustavus Adolphus, and
Golden Vally, at the home course
in Como Park. It was a great day
for running and a great day for
watching too, though very few
spectators showed up.
All the Royal runners seemed
ready to go, and they nearly pulled
off a victory settling for second
place as Golden Valley took it all.
Golden Valley was first with 47
points, Bethel second with 48,
Hamline third with 49. Gustavus
brought up the rear with 63.
Once again Dwight Carlson
paced the Royals and finished
fourth, over-all, right ahead of up
and coming freshman Mark Ander-son
who took fifth. Next for Bethel
the first two periods to take a 28-0
half-time lead.
Doug Patnode scored two touch-downs
and gained 134 yards in 14
carries to lead the Morris offense.
The Cougars only score in the
second half was a 25 yard field
goal by Ed Salcede.
was Rich Swanson who developed
a side ache on the third lap and
had to settle for twelveth position.
Paul Youngquist and Tom Mesaros
finished right behind Swanson in
the thirteenth and fourteenth spots.
Dave Greener and Bob Downey also
ran to finish out the Royal roster.
Prior to the meet, the Royals
held a practice meet with St. Tho-mas
on Thursday which St. Thomas
won. Anderson, Carlson, and Swan-son
took the top Royal positions
at the time also.
Next week (the remainder of the
season) the Royals will be at home
against Stout State (Wisconsin),
Eau Claire (Wisconsin) and again
against Gustavus Adolphus.
The meet will offer really good
competition, and the race will pro-bably
be pretty exciting. The team
needs fan support badly so if at
all possible, come down to the Co-mo
course at eleven Saturday morn-ing.
Frequent showers during the
game lessened the player's maneu-verability,
but didn't dampen their
spirits. Although the Royals were
actually out of the game by the
end of the first half, they charged
up during the half-time break and
battled Morris to a virtual stand-off
during the second half.
Outstanding players for Bethel
were Murray Sitte, who led the
team in rushing with 68 yards in
13 carries; Fred Swedberg, who
averaged 46 yards per punt; Tom
Swanson, who fired up the defense
during the second half and re-covered
a fumble; and Jim Carl-son,
who made several tackles on
punts and kickoffs. Bob Olson, Bar-ry
Anderson, and Dave Pound also
gave their usual fine efforts.
This week the Royals tune up for
their homcoming contest by tackl-ing
Jamestown, North D a k o t a.
Jamestown has a record of 4-0 go-ing
into the game and is the lead-ing
rushing team in the NAIA. If
the second half of the Morris game
is any indication of what is to
come, the Royals should put up
quite a battle this Saturday.
Tetameeitata
First half scoring by Morris Cougars
dampens Bethel Royals in the drizzle